It also reaffirms the Court's central role in determining what the law is - i.e., Marbury v. Madison.  Lurking behind all the Unitary Executive and "judicial modesty" bullcrap has been, since minute one, an attack on the role of the Courts as enunciated in Marbury - "to say what the law is".  Every one of Bushie's signing statements, decisions that he can waive or not enforce or disobey laws, etc., is predicated, at its core, on his being able to say what the law is, rather than having to let the Courts decide.  Remember, too, how he was deciding what the law is in the context of the secret memoranda Yoo wrote - how his Article II powers trumped all others, how he could define the limits of his Article II powers, and how no one could challenge his definition of Article II powers (Sen. Whitehouse spoke about this a lot) - this opinion throws all of that into the trash where it belongs.

This is one of the most important decisions in the last 50 years - maybe even since the New Deal cases of the '30s.

Yes.  Yes, they should.

Going too far in the direction of socialism (left) or corporatism (right) gets you fascism. Fascism is what BushCheney stands for, IMHO. We need more lefty (socialist) influence to pull the country back to the more sensible center.

But the Repubs worked extremely hard to bring along like-thinking lawyers, named them to important judicial posts early in their careers--and made sure they were True Believers.

It is amazing that Roberts & Scalia managed to actually graduate from a law school (or, perhaps, even enter one), pass a bar examination, be appointed as a judge & then get on the SCOTUS.  Their writing is utterly & demonstrably similar to the verbal pronouncements of people such as George W. Bu$h xliii, Rove, Cheney, etc.  They are nasty, dismissive of their peers & totally lacking in simple decorum or courtesy.  And neither of them can even follow the thread & the history of a citation.

The very simple fact that the USA, especially the Dept. of Defense, has de facto control of Guantanamo is beyond the understandings of both Roberts & Scalia--& there's a lease & history as a territory & as a post-war Spanish concession  & legal precedents.  What buffoons!